In our previous episode, Frank Peelo said: > > An additional issue with delimiters in this case is the fact, that "C" in > > "CSV" may not always be a comma (or that spreadsheet applications may > > expect different characters depending on locale - e.g. semicolons, etc.). > > CSV is occasionally referred to as something other than "Comma Separated > Values". I'm not sure why.
Because the comma is a bad separator for countries where the comma is the decimal separator, like most of mainland Europe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Countries_using_Arabic_numerals_with_decimal_comma http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Countries_using_Arabic_numerals_with_decimal_point _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
